Wow, America is really stupid for using Fahrenheit!

why do people bully us for imperial measurements when you can find them in other countries

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because it's associated with america and Europeans are obsessed

No.

Why would we bully Burma or Liberia?
Also the imperial system is really fucking retarded, there's a reason why the rest of the civilized world abandonned it

ok then I won't learn yours :^)

The first part is that it's km/h not kph. Then again, very easy. It takes about 1 minute to walk 100 metres, so in 10 minutes you will have walked 1 km. A human thus walks at a pace of about 6 km/h.
A safe city speed is 30 km/h, and in larger avenues you might reach 50 km/h (the maximum allowed in a city).
130 km/h is the maximum speed allowed on most European motorways.
The ISS travels around the Earth at 7 km/s. The speed of light is a bit lower than 300 000 km/s.
The circumference of the Earth is, almost by definition, 40 000 km.

this

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Retard

It's fine, you won't need it unless you want to become a scientist or something

>473,5 grains to an ounce
to be fair I think it's 7000 grains to a pound or something like that

Unfortunately not

you should be

This doesn't help at all as I don't understand the length of a meter, or a km, or a cm. If I told you that city driving is 30mph, highway is 60mph, and school zones are 20mph then you wouldn't understand because you have no reference.

if metric is so easy to use why can't euros do something as simple as landing a rover on mars

>ok it maybe more logical for scientists but it's not convenient for regular folks to use compared to imperial, proof is that I used imperial all my life and it feels more natural
Things americans say

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He meant that it still shows up in other countries where metric is dominant and that we still use metric on a daily basis here, depeneding on what we are measuring. Both systems have their purposes in science and everyday life.

It would make sense if you've ever walked anywhere.

i like to imagine americans say this unironically, i can just imagine their veins swelling and their blood pressure rising as they furiously type away haha

>Using different forms of measurements in the same context
For what purpose?

I would've just multiplied it by 1.6 and get km/h.
(secret tip: (you) can divide km/h bu 1.6 to get mph)

That's because we've used it our entire lives. You have no concept of US measurements because you've never used them, and I have no concept of metric measurements because I never use them. It's like asking a person to multiply two numbers when they have no concept of multiplication

... you just told me the references, which I do have.
But you can have more if you want. The width of your pinky is about 1 cm. The width of your palm, 10 cm. Your open hand reaches about 20 cm.
If your height is average, your legs will be about 1 m tall. NBA players are around 2 m tall. A 5 years old child is about 1 m tall. A newborn is about 50 cm tall.
Surely you can relate to these measurements

it's not that hard you just guesstimate 1.6 times the miles to get the km or other way around

>That's because we've used it our entire live
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. Yet you see regularely americans on this very site say that imperial would be more convenient for everyone because it's more natural than metric, which is retarded

if he converts he's not actually sensing the size of a metre and its multiples, though, he's just coming back to a familiar system

If you know the fibonacci sequence it's easy to convert. Just move back or forward one number to get an approximate conversion.

1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21...

5 miles = 8 km
5(0) km/h = 30 mph

Yes i'm 1.8 meters tall, but I can't possibly imagine what ~600 me's stacked ontop of each other looks like to form a km. I know what a mile is because I have reference. The distance from my house to the grocery store is 2 miles, the distance to college is 4.5 miles, etc.

>cubic yard

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>my system
>flag
>my

That's retarded. Instead, multiply by 16 (x4, twice) and then move the comma one place (ie, divide by 10).
35 miles -> (x4) 140 -> (x4) 560 -> (/10) 56 km.
Do the inverse for km to miles.
500 km -> (* 10) 5000 -> (/4) 1250 -> (/4) 312,5 miles

it's 30kmh schoolzones, 50kmh city, 100kmh out of city and 130kmh on highway.

It's just different numbers. You can get used to both forms. The big advantage of the metric system is:

1. It's based on permanent physical constants and can be defined with a 100% accuracy
2. It's a by a big range easier to calculate with and to apply in praxis where you need em. (just a famous example: the space shuttle collumbus went kill becaus some retard didn't get the heat calculations right with Fahrenheit)
3. It's a world wide standard therefore everywhere in the world you can have what you're used to.

That's why I told you the walking distance. Every ten minutes you walk at a decently fast pace, it's one km. You take 7 minutes to get to the grocery store? It's about 700 metres away. 25 minutes? 2,5 km.

I never walk anywhere

Wtf i love america now

how can you estimate miles then?

It's not retarded if you want an approximation. Plus it's a lot faster than multiplying with anything.

35 miles = ~58 km, just move the 3 and 5 up one number in the sequence.

its our fault
if only nappy spread the true knowledge 30 year earlier they will also use metric system
or we should just colonized them again

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driving and mph. I drive an hour every day back and forth to work and it's ~55 miles away, I drive most of it on 60mph highways and then the rest in stop and go intersections of 30mph

funny how brits never pipe up in these threads

desu they only use imperial for distances (and thus speed limits)

How do you do 60 with your system? Literally only works with 35.
11 miles = 22 kilometres? I don't think so.

Most people would find it easier to double a number four times rather than trying to remember the fibonacci sequence.

What do you even do with 6?

Not him but you can figure it out with time and mph

>going to work that far
tangential to the discussion on measurement systems, but man that kills the planet, why do you work so far from your home?

But your speed in a car is highly variable unless you're on a straight section of highway, whereas you walk at a pretty constant pace.

Besides, he said he wanted a feeling of how long a kilometre is, of course everyone can do basic arithmetic, but that doesn't give the feeling.

I'M A PEOPLE NOT A WATER
100 DEGREES IS HOT, EVEN IF IT ISN'T BOILING
JUST LIKE HOW 100MPH IS FAST
human brain work with 100 very good u know it to be true u just hate it cause america win again...

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you slow down in the corners on the highway?

you'll figure it out

1 hour commute is pretty normal

This.

6 is 3 two times. Very easy.

E.g. 60 mph works out to 100 km/h (or 50 + 50).

americans live in suburbs

No, but I don't go at 120 when there's dense traffic. What I mean is, you get a much better feeling of distances you walk than distances you ride.

It's not so much the time as the distance involved. Being 80 km away from work isn't, or shouldn't, be normal. I mean I live near the center of a large city, and if I drive 80 km to the west I'm in the middle of the mountains.

Doesn't sound very handy to me. What about 11 miles? You should reach 17 kilometres, not 22. I mean you'd be overestimating by about 30 %.

are monitors sold in europe in cm? or do you guys have to put up with measurements like 27 inch monitors

60 mi is 100km
1/4 mi is 400m
With that taken into account rest is quite simple

they're sold here in inch

Inches.
Most people know how big an inch is since practically all rulers have both measurements.

I will give you that it has flaws at some distances, though 11 would be 8 + 3 or 13 + 5 = 18 km

>he doesn't measure temperature using the Rankine scale

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60 miles is a small distance for us, my state is 350 miles (560km) wide. It's pretty common for people to drive to other states to see family, a cross country trip can easily be 2700 miles (4400km)

Yeah often they're advertised and inches and no one has any clue what to think of it without referencing to other tv sizes
Recently though i noticed it's being refered in cm
Bought myself a 138cm tv last week

gas is only $0.50/liter here

>and no one has any clue what to think of it without referencing to other tv sizes
This.

It was $1.74 this morning here.

Shit be wack yo

I don't think it's because of living in a suburb, these dots I drew on this map of the USA have a radius of 80 km. I don't doubt there's a large urban sprawl, but it's not THAT large.

Your distances are as big for you as they are for us, I mean your cars don't go faster and your days don't have more hours. 60 miles is enormous, no matter how large the state.

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Brine

no, people here are accustomed to longer commutes, Europeans are accustomed to shorter commutes so the perception is skewed

>60 miles is enormous
lol wat

For urban sprawl, it's gargantuan. 60 miles of nothing but houses and occasionally some sparse malls? Imagine that.

Is using two hours per day just to travel to an from work really seen as normal?

maybe for you, for us it's normal

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u euros are so adorable

everybody lives in suburbs so yes it's normal

holy shit the absolute waste of space

we have lots of it so i don't see the issue

And here I thought my 30 minute drive to work was bad enough.

That's gotta suck.

>waste
Funny, we call it property value

It's not that bad, I get to cross this bridge every day

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Spain is a waste of space

I doubt it. People seem surprised when I tell them it takes me an hour to get to school. I drive in from a rural area to a city of about 400,000.

30 is on the edge of just moving closer desu

because britposters are underage soys that unironically use the metric system and arent embarrassed saying something as gay as "kilometre"

btw even then your chart shows that suburbs 80 km away from a city are indeed an exception and only to be found in the few largest cities

It drives energy consumption through the roofs, now I understand why Americans emit 15 % of the world's CO2 while being less than 5 % of the population. And it used to be 25 % in the 1990's.
Now that's a problem because your CO2 doesn't stay within your borders.

Neat

There's suburbs and small towns outside of the city limits

based fellow nature commuter

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the US will be more negatively impacted by climate change than the european countries tho.
china will be anally raped by it.

people in your country would be doing the same thing if gas was dirt cheap

>the mere presence of land increases CO2 production
Are you fucking retarded or do you just guzzle your EU reps’ cum every time they post another “report”

Ah. now I see, once again it's Americans seeing themselves much larger and bigger than they actually are. They actually commute less, on average, than Europeans.

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Based Dmitri.